The shout-out to computer science is not unexpected from the president, who has touted his commitment to K-12 coding initiatives, and to expanding the science, technology, engineering, and math teaching force, over the last several years.

Obama said this evening that the United States should continue the education reform efforts begun with the recent bipartisan passing of the Every Student Succeeds Act by "offering every student the hands-on computer science and math classes that make them job-ready on day one, and we should recruit and support more great teachers for our kids."

Computer science made its way into the new federal education legislation as well. The phrase computer science appears in ESSA a half-dozen times, most often clarifying that science, technology, engineering, and math efforts include computer science.

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